Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for making and using a filter cloth assembly are described. A filter cloth assembly can have a liquid permeable filtering medium attached to a connector ring. The liquid permeable filtering media separates at least one solid from at least one liquid in a slurry. The filtering media has a feed hole formed therein that allows passage of a slurry through the filter cloth. The connector ring including a flange having an upper flange section and a lower flange section. The lower flange section receives an edge of the feed hole to connect the filtering media to the connector ring such that the face of the filtering media is substantially flush with the upper flange section.

Abstract: A method is provided for fixedly joining a cloth, a cloth-like fabric or a synthetic mesh to a rigid or semi-rigid hub to form a seal, which secures the cloth, the cloth-like fabric or the synthetic mesh to the hub by enclosing the edge of the material between the neck of the hub and a ring, and causing the fusing of the hub and ring through induction heating of a bonding agent The assembly is advantageously used as a filter screen in a filter press.